> Are there other platforms that can observe a memory value in its store
> buffer without having it become globally visible?
A "full" StoreLoad barrier is needed on all current processors to
conform to JMM volatile write semantics, so IA64 isn't at a special
disadvantage. There is room for exploiting special cases though, and
in some of them a clever optimizer could instead use a st.rel here
(which is an option that most other processors don't have).
-Doug
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